Choose a city one that you have not lived in. Search the web and find [[#|the answers]] to the following questions for your chosen city.
Where is it located?
What is the population?
What is the weather like?
What languages do they speak?
What kinds of sport are popular?
Who is the president/prime minister/ruler?
What do people like to do for entertainment?
What tourist attractions are popular?
What kind of public transport is used?
Is there a lot of traffic congestion?
Write a short paragraph about your city, including three obvious mistakes.
Look at you partners paragraph and correct the errors
Follow up by using the city to write a comparative piece of writing. Comparing your city with the city selected.
Post you piece of writing on the wiki
Correct you classmates errors or give them advice about the structure
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You can upload homework/assignments and answers on wiki
Set up the wiki so it has various themes on different pages such vocabulary, grammar structures, expressions. This can be added to as you go
Use it for vocabulary i.e students are assigned/ select new words that come up in class. They post their new words with definitions, word form, pronunciation, examples etc on a vocabulary page
Students post work their own work on the wiki, if they are comfortable, then others can redraft edit
Give students a web site/book/listening, Students write a review
Put a text/video on the wiki without questions. Students have to write the questions for other students to answer
Put up a text with Questions, students highlight where the answers rather than answering the questions
Students find a text, video, listening have to write questions
Students create a story together in groups. You can start them off. They can use additional pages to write profiles of characters or to write prequels/sequels to the story/glossary of terms or definitions
Give the students a basic story in which they have to add adjectives/adverbs to add extra detail or add sentences to build up the back ground
Set up a discussion page or forum to discuss work language ideas
Task
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